Places
- England
- Lindisfarne, Northumberland, home of a medieval monastery
- Ireland
- Inish Cealtra, near Mountshannon on the west shore of Lough Derg
- Russia
- Vaygach Island, Arctic Circle, with one community of 100 inhabitants, Varnek, Russia
- Scotland
- Eileach an Naoimh, also known as Holy Isle, located in the Firth of Lorn
- Holy Isle, Firth of Clyde, off the Isle of Arran
- United States
- Holy Island, Massachusetts
- Wales
- Holy Island, Anglesey
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Famous quotes containing the word places:
“In many places the road was in that condition called repaired, having just been whittled into the required semicylindrical form with the shovel and scraper, with all the softest inequalities in the middle, like a hog’s back with the bristles up.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“All of childhood’s unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.”
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)